I searched rolls of halves like a lot of people on this forum do. Evenually I got fed up with halves that had all been searched through and had marker dots on them. So I started wondering what I should do next that would make me some money if I'm lucky. The Sacagawea! Searching for rare Sacagawea's seem to get glossed over on this forum. I can't recall ever seeing a thread about roll searching for them. My thinking is that there were over 5,000 of the Cheerios Sacagawea. Each of those will fetch aprox. $150. Then there are the mules which have Washington's head on a Sacagawea dollar coin. Those have fetched around $50,000 give or take a few thousand dollars. One of which was found in the very same town that I'm employed in, Cape Girardeau, MO. Any thoughts on this?
There is a bank real close to me that has a bunch of Sacagawea rolls in their safe. When I come up with some extra cash a plan on getting a roll or two a week and see what I come up with.
Why not search for one the gold Sackies ? I'll bet one of them would sell for hundreds of thousands, maybe more. You won't find any, but they do exist. You have a slim to none chance of finding a mule, but ya never know. As for the Cheerios dollar, that you might find. But be prepared to do a LOT of fruitless searching.
I would have to agree with GDJMSP. IMHO, you have a much better chance of find a key date Walker in rolls of halves than you do of finding one of the Cheerio's Sac's in dollar rolls.
How could you tell the difference between a cheerio and a regular issue. It was my understanding that they are the same, just the cheerio dollar was in the first 500 of the run? (I am not a sac collector so I dont know, just something I recall reading someplace.
The Cheerios Sackies are fetching $3000 and up. The one for sale on eBay now has a bid of $4500. I've been watching for them as they sell and about 60-70% have been found in New York.
Can someone post a picture or scan of the Cherios Sac? While I've heard about them, I don't think I've ever seen what all the fuss is about or how they differ from the regular coin. For all I know, I've spent a couple of them.
Great idea Kelso. I too have tired of the relentless half dollar searching (I used to like Kennedy) and coincidentally I have just finished my third complete set of Sacagawea dollars today through 2006. I guess I don't have a cheerios Sac but I'm going to call the sets complete anyway. BTW: Anybody happen to know the P and D Sacagawea mintage numbers yet after 2003? The last numbers I have are about 3.09 million for the 2003 P and D’s. Lowest mintage yet.
I think in my area I'll have better luck with them. I've gone through about 300 rolls and come up with a 2000 proof and 2 40% halves. Plus, just knowing that one of the mules was found in this area really lights a fire under my butt.
Oops! Never mind. I found the information here. Hope you didn't search. http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_min...=production_figures&nickelYear=2004#starthere It looks like the 2005 P and D have the lowest production numbers to date with 2.5 million. I wonder how many proofs were made that year? Found that too. http://lynncoins.com/set_mintages.htm
I've read several posts of a Sac collector that focuses on fully struck EDS coins. From what I've read they are rare coins and can still be cherrypicked. During your searching, I'd try and put together a high grade fully struck EDS set of coins and sit on it. Could be a nice investment a few years from now....Mike
